The story of a veteran director sharing the spotlight at a long-running film festival with his spouse and her directorial debut could have been the premise of an Edward Burns movie, if it weren't also his reality at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival,...

March 29, 2011, Tuesday

"Newlyweds," the 10th film written and directed by Mr. Burns, chronicles "a newly wedded couple whose honeymoon period is upended by the arrival of the husband's wild-child baby sister and the crumbling marriage of the wife's meddlesome sister."

Early in ''Confidence,'' Dustin Hoffman, playing a grizzled, jumpy gangster known as the King, gives some rambling lowlife advice to Jake Vig, a smooth young con artist played by Edward Burns. Don't rely too much on style, the King warns, because...

As a director, writer and actor, Edward Burns never seems to tire of depicting his own sensitivity. In the romantic comedies he has made -- from ''The Brothers McMullen'' (1995) to ''Sidewalks of New York'' (2002) -- he positions himself as the...

October 11, 2002, Friday

How is Angelina Jolie like an Altoids mint? Give up? Me, too. But if this strikes you as an intriguing riddle -- or for that matter, as a question of serious import -- then help yourself to ''Life or Something Like It,'' a chalky, stale comedy of...